An essential component of understanding any work of art is learning how it is made. Select one object, or type of object, from the period under examination in this course (1650-1850) and discuss how it was made. (For example, a portrait, a landscape, a high chest, a silver teapot, and so forth.)
What materials and techniques did the artist or craftsman use? Where did they get the materials? How were they trained? How many people in a given shop or studio might have been involved in the making of the object? Choose any type of object—painting, silver, furniture, and so on, to discuss.
Get right down on the shop floor and discuss the process.
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